Learn interventional radiology at Wits.
Structured registrar learning across body IR, neuroradiology and neurointervention, with guides written by WIRS members, teaching you can attend, and a short list of external resources worth your time.
What do you want to learn?
IR foundations
What the specialty does, and the vocabulary a case is discussed in.Periprocedural patient care
The work either side of the procedure — selection, optimisation, aftercare.Core image-guided, non-vascular and oncologic IR
Biopsy, drainage and access — the work you meet earliest and most often.Vascular & emergency intervention
Bleeding, embolisation and vascular access, and the decisions behind them.Neuroradiology & neurointervention
Stroke, aneurysms and malformations — from the imaging to the intervention.Research, governance & career
Reading evidence, producing it, and the certification pathways that follow.
From WIRS.
Written by our members, for registrars in our programme.
Access, wires, catheters and sheaths →
The equipment vocabulary and sizing logic you are assumed to already know on your first day in the angio suite.How to become an interventional radiologist in South Africa →
The practical route from registrar to IR practice — what exists formally, what does not, and what you can do now.How to become a neurointerventionist in South Africa →
SANIS, PLANET, ECMINT and the diploma — what each one is, and what none of them replaces.Mechanical thrombectomy for registrars →
Patient selection, imaging, preparation and technique — what a registrar on the stroke service is expected to understand.Mechanical thrombectomy checklist →
A registrar-focused pre- and post-procedure checklist for the stroke call team.
Teaching & activity.
Upcoming
- 31Oct 2026WIRS Interventional Oncology Workshop
- 11Nov 2026Approach to the management of HCC — the role of the diagnostic and interventional radiologist
- 20–21Nov 2026Wits Neuroradiology & Neurointervention Symposium 2026
Recent
- 23Sep 2026Approach to haemoptysis — the role of the diagnostic and interventional radiologist
- 2Sep 2026Drainage procedures — the IR perspective
WIRS is also developing an IR lecture programme and further workshops. Sessions appear here once they are confirmed.
Learn beyond WIRS.
- European Curriculum and Syllabus for IR (3rd edition) (opens in a new tab)The reference European IR curriculum, and the basis of the EBIR examination.
- CIRSE Academy (opens in a new tab)Curriculum-mapped e-learning, free with a CIRSE account.
- SIR — IR training pathways for students and residents (opens in a new tab)SIR's trainee section — broad body-IR orientation and a trainee community.
- Radiopaedia (opens in a new tab)A free radiology reference with a large imaging case library.
- Neuroangio.org (opens in a new tab)Detailed neurovascular anatomy tutorials and DSA-based case archives.
- World Stroke Academy modules (opens in a new tab)Free stroke e-learning — systems of care, presentation and imaging.
- RadioGraphics (opens in a new tab)RSNA's educational review journal — a common journal-club source.
- EBIR — European Board of Interventional Radiology (opens in a new tab)The IR certification the European curriculum builds towards.
Want to teach, run a workshop, or support one? Get in touch →